All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Chance created the situation

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.